Gotta be one of my favorite tapes ever!! I still have a reel to reel of it somewhere made off a first gen of Wags' masters

Love the "This Date In History" feature.
Dec. 20 was a date that came up short so i entered Dec. 19 instead. Stumbled upon this Gem...WOW !
Thank you to All involved in maintaining this treasure trove...so very Grateful

im just listening to the the Mississippi uptown and im hearing one of the best auds ive heard in awhile. and im not usually a fan of auds unless there like this. anyone got a list of auds that are of this greatness?????

The band took the stage and played their hearts out. Jerry wore dark sunglasses and seemed to be looking at something very interesting in the waaay back of the hall.
Only show I ever attended with almost zero audience, and the band played as if to a packed house, really filled the house with a living breathing sound. Amazing.
And when I say there was no audience I mean a small puddle of folks on the GA floor front & center. Empty.
I will hopefully always have this memory to cherish. I drove in from Memphis with a couple friends I was turning on to their first Dead concert. How crazy is it all?

There is a real good interview by David Gans with Dr. Bob Wagner who has the only known aud of this show. Find it here: https://soundcloud.com/dgans/interview-with-dr-bob-wagner?in=dgans/sets/interviews
Excellent playing and Weir and Garcia have some really great rapport especially in the 2nd set. The long NFA is really inventive for that year. in particular i like the Lazy Lightning to end the first set.
Some '78 is not my favorite but this may be the best show from the southern run.

Never met a Scarlet>Fire or a Stella I didn't love. And no exception here. Add in high powered Truckin' and TOO, and you've got a great set! And a big fan of 78 and 79 NFA's, so bonus for me! Don't usually rate shows I wasn't at, but I can feel the happy vibe on this one. #BeKind #AINTNOTIMETOHATE

Caught this show on GD channel tonite in the background, but not until the Stella Blue did the show get my full attention! '78 has always been an underrated year and once again this proved to be a great treat. Transition between SB and NFA is truly one of a kind....thanks boys!!

Read some reviews and went straight to the Stella Blue and the transition to Not Fade Away brought a huge smile!!!!!!
Wish I was there. I was at plenty of good and great shows, and this would have made me a very happy person to attend!
Great job on the recording and I'll keep looking for pearls like this!

Edited version of post from November 2013:
This is a great show despite lack of keyboards!

I am not trying to shoot flames here....but love when people try to critique the boys....I tell ya what, when you can get up there....and we all show to hear you....then feel free...but till then, lid on it...and a shoe in it!!!! Please, and thank you...have a grateful sort of day!!!

on the mark, get ready, get this set!!!
5stars not enough,up and over the wall folks!im on the floor for this show!thanks you people who bring these shows here,much kudos!!!
from the 70's to the early 90's it was a way of life to make every show possible,and now thanks to u we got it every day when i can.mahalo renosson

This is a very cool show with a full, rich, stereo audience sound. Very energetic performance from the band. I really love the Stella > NFA transition. Show 1978 some respect!

Since you asked, here's a brief list of some of my very favorite versions of "Stella Blue":
11-20-73
9-10-74
10-17-74
10-02-76
10-10-76
10-21-78
1-11-79
9-02-79
3-23-81
4-09-89
This show is fabulous, a definite contender for one of the best of the year.....and I say this as a long-time "1978 junkie"! I'm so glad they pulled this out of the hat in my beloved home state.....and, yeah, that transition from "Stella" into "NFA" IS mind-blowing!!
5 stars for performance and the killer AUD recording!!

I really love these late '78 shows. The whole year is absolutely unique and stellar. This particular show has a great Scarlet>Fire and one hell-of-a Truckin'. Phil contributes some particularly BAD vocals to the choruses, but it is a high energy performance with an amazing jam out. The Stella Blue>N.F.A. will blow your mind! Just listen to the segue between the songs! I love the sound quality here too. Just like sitting 20 rows back from the stage! Keith is drowned out, but all else is good. Enjoy!

I have been looking for a real sweet stella....love jerry's finger work at the end. Other stella suggestions welcome.

Good setlist--good times.

Real nice Stella > Not Fade > Around & Around . . . well worth a listen & DL. Great AUD of a Real Solid Show.

eleventh grade, first dead show, life
and perception changing to say the least.
if there is any doubt as to the sheer
joy these guys brought to us all, just
shut up for a second, and LISTEN!
all of this changed my way of thinking,
as well as opening up a whole beautiful and
enourmous well of possibilities, man..
after some 70 shows, it is still magic.
if the thunder don't get
you then the lightnin' will..

Beautiful Aud recording, the drums really echo thru the chamber.
1st Set:
Although the Half Step>Franklins is nice and mellow, a 4 star performance, the rest of the set is slow and Jerry in particular seems a little sick or out of it.
2nd Set:
Scarlet > Fire is really sweet, pretty, and smooth. Truckin, Drums, Other One are all very solid, in forceful 78 style, and then there's the Stella > NFA....an UNFORGETTABLE moment! Really, extremely, tears-to-your-eyes beautiful transition. The encore of Casey Jones is also perfectly done. Get this show now!!

THIS SHOW FOR A AUD RECORDING IS PRETTY DAMM GOOD
WELL WORTH THE DOWNLOAD

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=109380&page=0#startcomments

not the greatest but good sound recording

Like the yahoo below, I was an "elitist" and simply would not consider trades for shows unless they were A+ soundboards, or at least A soundboards for shows I really wanted. I'd never consider audience recordings.
When the Dead Organization pulled DLs of the soundboards, I was furious. I was so mad, I thought about having the Stealie tattoo removed from my right bicep. But one day I was twiddling around with the archive.org options, and found this link to downloadable shows, almost all of which are audience recordings. One option allows you to rank the downloadable shows by rating, and, bam, did I come across a whole bunch of 1981 shows (why that year, I dunno...) that were 5-star audience recordings. I've DL'd a bunch of '81, plus a tasty 9-7-85 Red Rocks show, and a hilarious 7-31-71 show from Yale, where the damn audience CLAPS along with the Dead for three whole CDs! I never would have discovered those shows, or this nice one from Jackson, Mississippi, if I hadn't been "forced" to "go slumming" among the audience recordings. Yeah, a lot of them still suck, but if you take the time, jewels like this (and Barton Hall, Cornell University, 1981) will unveil themselves.
So, in retrospect, pulling the SBDs still was RUDE AS HELL, but I've found a whole new group of Dead shows to explore!
Try to find that positive side, eh?
Peace,
Jac in Tucson

Compared to other online live audio downloads of The Grateful Dead, this one sounds really good to me. Originally I was looking just to locate the tour date for this concert, since I am from Jackson,Ms. and I attended this-my one and only Grateful Dead concert. I just wanted to determine if it was in '78 or '79, it's been awhile you know. Anyway, I was elated to be able to locate the date, but to find the actual audio download for me was just TOO MUCH !!! As I recall, the authorities were so afraid that something iconoclastic was going to occur that they left the house lights on, if not for the whole concert-most of it! Unfortunately, this was after Pigpen's passing, but I still enjoyed the J-Bob show. And of course, you don't appreciate things as much when they're around until it's too late, and they're gone. So, for me I am really enjoying the exhumation of this fond memory. And now just as it was then, I am still in Pigpen Heaven!

The nimrod below picks a show to complain about the SBDs being gone for a show where a board doesn't even exist. Nice. You go dude!!

Not a fan of aud/microphone recordings at all..... But this sounds very good ....aint the best show performance wise but pretty solid..... But all things considered a nice download...... But I think that is why Phil is all for the sbds.....cause that way he can be heard too.....to me the low end /bass seems lost on most of the auds.....but any way that's the ratbobs fault.....